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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

VOLUME LXVIII, NUMBER 53

Where You Read It First Est. 1980

Grand jury reaches decision on Ferguson shooting: Wilson faces no charges Last night at 9 p.m. EST, St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch announced the Missouri grand jury’s decision not to indict Darren Wilson.

Wilson, a 28-year-old white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., shot and killed Michael

Brown, an 18-year-old unarmed black man on Aug. 9. Brown’s shooting has sparked ongoing protests in Ferguson and across the United States since this summer. The lack of an indictment means that the grand jury did not find enough

evidence to show that Wilson could be reasonably convicted at trial.

Black Lives Matter Boston, an organization that “remains committed to being active in the movement against racist policing and police violence both

locally and nationally,” will be hosting “#IndictAmerica: Turn Up for Mike Brown!” this evening at 7 p.m. at the District B-2 station of the Boston Police Department at 2400 Washington St. in Roxbury, Boston.

—by Patrick McGrath

Administration issues statement on custodial services, TLC leads opposition

by Patrick McGrath Daily Editorial Board

Tufts administration released an announcement on “Custodial Services at Tufts” on Nov. 21, which outlined the current status of the recently signed contract between Tufts and DTZ, the outside contractor for Tufts janitors. The plan DTZ is developing in accordance with the new contract was also mentioned, though changes are not expected until March at the earliest, according to Vice President for Operations Linda Snyder.

The statement was met with opposition from some students over potential layoffs for janitors, with Tufts Labor Coalition (TLC) organizing a teach-in on Wednesday evening. TLC submitted a petition yesterday to Tufts administration demanding better and more open communication, increased accountability and that no cuts be made, according to TLC President Lior Appel-Kraut.

The announcement, which was released

by Snyder and Executive Vice President Patricia Campbell, emphasized a number of goals set forth in the new contract.

“What we said in that letter is that we have multiple goals; one is efficiency, one is increasing the percentage of full-time workers and one is sustainability,” Snyder said.

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Executive Vice President of Tufts University Patricia Campbell receives Tufts Labor Coalition’s demands during an action on Monday, Nov. 24.

“And the sustainability one in particular takes time, because you have to communicate, you have to think it through and then DTZ needs to think about how its workforce is allocated.”

University President Anthony Monaco noted that the goal of increasing the percentage of full-time workers is a major issue,

and that Tufts has been pressing DTZ to present a plan that would help the university achieve this goal.

“So if you want to do that, you’re going to have to change the architecture of the workforce so that you don’t have as many part-time people and more fulltime,” he said.

The announcement indicated that the new contract stipulates that DTZ prepare a plan in pursuance with these objectives on all three of Tufts’ campuses. “[DTZ is] responsible to meet efficiency and cleaning targets,” Snyder said. “So we don’t tell them how many people they have to hire or what to do. They have standards in the contract that they’re required to meet, including sustainability standards. So they are taking time to really understand it.”

Tufts students, including members of TLC, have responded to the potential for janitorial layoffs with activism on campus, including the petition submitted yesterday as well as an email campaign to contact Tufts administrators, according to Appel-Kraut, a sophomore.

“The [announcement] itself essentially continued the same inexcusable sort of rhetoric that they’ve been using to excuse themselves of cuts that they want to make, so claiming that this is the only way to get more full-time workers is one way that they’re excusing their actions and claiming that these actions will be more sustainable and that we need more efficiency,” she said.

Appel-Kraut said that the petition they submitted yesterday received a few hundred signatures and over a hundred people attended the teach-in last week. She added see TLC, page 2

Students urge administration to support undocumented students

by Audrey Michael Daily Editorial Board

Tufts United for Immigrant Justice (UIJ) has recently taken major steps to pressure the university into providing clear and accessible support for undocumented students in the application process and throughout their time at Tufts.

UIJ’s “Resolution to Establish Equal Opportunity for Undocumented Students,” which the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate passed 27-0-1 on Nov. 16, urged the administration to consider undocumented students as domestic rather than international students and to readily provide “an explicit, uniform admissions policy and a need-based financial aid policy” for undocumented applicants, according to the resolution.

UIJ also released a series of open letters to various administration officials and to the Tufts community, one of which ran in the Daily on Nov. 18. The letter featured the personal stories of three prospective and current undocumented Tufts students and insisted that the

administration adopt the measures requested in the Senate resolution.

UIJ President Zobella Vinik explained that the next step is to work toward securing meetings with administrators to further the implementation of the resolution. To this end, UIJ has also released a petition to add additional weight to the resolution, she noted.

Vinik, a senior, explained that depending on the initiative’s progress into next semester, UIJ will begin taking direct action. This would include holding rallies and protests that would aim to continue to highlight the barriers facing undocumented students.

“It’s an urgent issue affecting people right now,” she said.

According to Vinik, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions believes there are fewer than five undocumented students attending Tufts, but she noted that barriers to application and a lack of institutional support for undocumented students make it difficult for them to attend college.

Under Tufts’ current policy, undocumented students must

apply as international students, which prevents them from receiving the financial aid that is almost always necessary for them to attend Tufts, according to the resolution.

While the administration is planning to introduce accommodation for students with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status, DACA’s many shortcomings make it a poor means of identifying undocumented students in the Tufts application process, according to Vinik.

For example, undocumented students with DACA status must renew their application every two years and pay a $465 fee with each renewal, Vinik added.

“There’s a financial gap in who can do it,” Vinik said.

Vinik added that only 46 percent of applicants for DACA status in Massachusetts receive the status, and that its specific requirements prevent many undocumented students from qualifying in the first place. Furthermore, she noted that many undocumented youth and their families are reluctant to give information about their immigration status to

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federal authorities.

UIJ Historian Joanna Dimas, who is from California, said she witnessed many of her undocumented friends struggle with or fail to complete the college admissions process.

“I saw the barriers they faced when they were applying to universities,” she said.

Dimas, a sophomore, emphasized that undocumented students need support from the administration throughout their college career — not just in the application process.

From selecting classes to managing a four-year plan, undocumented students are often unsure of how to navigate the college atmosphere where most students either possess U.S. citizenship or are international students with visas, she noted.

“It’s one step to bring and accept undocumented students and to provide financial aid, but you have to take a further step,” Dimas said. “Once they’re actually here, it’s difficult to adjust.”

Many colleges and universities have already implemented ways to assist undocument-

ed students both with their application processes and throughout their university careers. Harvard University, for example, provides a guidance counselor who is specially designated to help undocumented students, according to Dimas.

Vinik noted that it was helpful for members of UIJ to meet with the student groups at those institutions who worked to bring these changes to fruition.

“Most [of these initiatives] were started by students,” she said.

In some cases, administrators and even local politicians were particularly supportive of the changes, Vinik added.

UIJ began working with the TCU Senate Cultural, Ethnicity, and Community Affairs Committee in early November to bring the resolution to completion, according to Vinik. She observed that the resolution received broad support from several student groups as well as from many TCU senators.

Diversity and Community Affairs Officer Allison Aaronson said that because many student see UIJ, page 2

Today’s sections

ArtsEmerson’s production of “The Trip to Bountiful” examines the importance of the home in one’s life.

Women’s cross country places 16th at nationals behind AllAmerican finish.

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see SPORTS, back

News 1 Arts & Living 3 Editorial | Op-Ed 5

Op-Ed 6 Classifieds 7 Sports Back

2 Stina Stannik | A Jumbo in Ghana

Too little, too much, just right

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y the time you read this, I will have less than three weeks left in Ghana. I feel like I only just began this whole process yesterday – and when you consider that I only truly started thinking about studying in Ghana a bit over a year ago, it was a pretty fast turnaround. But the end of this fivemonth odyssey, this singular chapter of my life, still feels too sudden.

In this last stretch, I have started to think about how much time it takes to be truly attached to a place.

Before choosing where to study abroad, I was told again and again that it is always best to go for a year – that with a semester-long program you only just get comfortable by the time you leave. With Tuftsin-Ghana, a semester was the only option. I can’t decide if it’s the right amount of time. Most of us have expressed, at one point or an other, that our time has not been enough.

Especially now, when I meet new people, we seem to mutually recognize that there is little point to pursuing friendship with only a few weeks remaining.

In some ways five months have been long enough. Many aspects of this experience have become normalized for me. I never felt like I underwent dramatic culture shock, but lately I have found it daunting to write interesting posts for my blog because I feel as though I am now just living regular life. I can easily barter for a taxi; giant gutters are just another part of walking down the street; I can predict when power outages will hit, and know to shower and charge my devices before they do!

Yet that kind of comfort is only the beginning of settling into a place.

If I were here for a year, I feel like I would establish much deeper relationships with my Ghanaian peers.

I am only just figuring out how to hang out with them in a meaningful way. But would an extra five months change anything or just extend the problem? Does this sharp end to my time force me to more consciously act and interact? I tend to think not – I think I have begun the shuttingdown, checking-out process, turning my sights toward home.

And what claim do I have to Ghana moving forward? Most people who come never return – or at least that’s the impression I have gotten from Ghanaian friends, who always find it hard to believe that I want to come back someday. Whatever my intentions, however I have spent my time, this has been a visit of luxury and choice. But Ghana has permanently, deeply changed me.

It’s not something I can capture in the Ghanaian flag I hang on my wall or the WhatsApp contacts I hope to maintain. I will try to describe some of that personal growth next week.

I feel more content and grounded and centered here than I ever did at Tufts. How much of that is illusory, an artificial product of the temporary nature of my stay?

Let me state, for the record, that I fully intend to return to Ghana.

I want the attachment to remain real. I am writing this on a beach at sunset with Ghanaian highlife music playing behind me, watching a fishing boat pull in for the night.

How can this just be a dream that I take advantage of for a time before returning to “normal life”?

The strongest marker of my attachment here, I believe, is that I feel fear that I will go back and find myself unchanged.

Stina Stannik is a junior majoring in peace and justice studies. She can be reached at Stina.Stannik@tufts.edu.

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TLC members submit petition to administration over potential layoffs for janitors TLC

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that about 20 to 25 students helped deliver the petition to Ballou Hall, carrying signs with quotes from students and janitors against the possible cuts.

“I’m personally overwhelmed by the amount of support that people have been showing towards our janitors — people are really coming together and rallying around this,” James Gordon, a member of TLC, said.

Snyder underscored the potential positive effects of the new contract as moving toward improving service, meeting cleaning standards, being as efficient as possible and increasing sustainability. She cited the recent approval by the Board of Trustees of a new central energy plant that will allow Tufts to produce up to 90 percent of its own electricity with a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gases. The objective of the new plant will be to achieve more sustainable operations and lower costs in order to support funding for other goals, such as research, teaching, scholarship and learning, she added.

“The potential negative effects are that there will be personnel impacts,” Snyder said. “I don’t know today, I don’t think it’ll be broad, I don’t think it’ll be huge, it will be very carefully managed, but there will have to be some personnel changes. And that’s why we’re talking about this early so that we can get the word out.”

The announcement stated that once Tufts and DTZ have agreed on an actionable plan, “DTZ will put forth its best efforts to ensure that custodians whose positions at Tufts are adversely affected by the moves toward more full-time workers or increased efficiency will receive full consideration for other openings within DTZ.” Gordon, a sophomore, disputed the pursuit of the objectives set forth in the contract.

“Once again, they’re just trying to hide behind these big words of efficiency and

sustainability and greenwash this issue and shove it under the carpet,” he said.

Appel-Kraut also discussed the objective of efficiency, noting that it demonstrates a lack of communication.

“In terms of efficiency, I think that it shows a big disconnect when members of the janitorial staff are expressing that they are already overworked and they already clean large amounts of space every hour of their shift,” she said.

Monaco, however, highlighted the need to push for increased efficiency in light of how Tufts compares to other institutions.

“The second thing in the contract, as was outlined, was the realization that when you compare the efficiency of how we do custodial work at Tufts, it is below and significantly below the average at other places,” he said.

“And so we started to explore with [DTZ], well why did they think we were covering less ground with the same number of people.”

Snyder also emphasized the important role of increasing sustainability, adding that the objective is not in fact greenwashing.

“I was sad to read the university’s sustainability efforts called greenwashing in [an op-ed in] the Tufts Daily, which really is not true,” she said. “Many, many institutions have found that if they change how they service offices, they can decrease the waste stream, improve recycling rates, and we’re wanting to [move] towards a zero-waste university.”

According to Snyder, Tufts is in the process of reviewing its waste-management system. The goal is to decrease the waste stream and increase recycling, with pilot waste-management programs on each of Tufts’ campuses.

“If we could reduce those visits [to empty waste bins and replace trash bags], it’s good for the environment, it would hopefully promote recycling and it would allow the workforce to be put onto tasks where we know there is still a considerable amount of work, which is of course the dining halls, the

social areas like the [Mayer] Campus Center and of course all the dorms,” Monaco said.

Appel-Kraut explained that she views other sustainability initiatives as more important.

“In terms of sustainability, I think the administration has been pressured by students for lots of ways to be more sustainable, and decreasing the number of liners of garbage bags is not the best way or the only way for us to do it,” she said.

Gordon noted that he is unsure of when action might be taken by the administration, but one of TLC’s biggest obstacles has been a lack of information and transparency about the terms of the new contract.

“So right now we’re just trying to demand some degree of accountability and some degree of visibility, and our biggest demand right now is just that the administration stop outsourcing accountability to DTZ and take some responsibility for the janitorial staff,” he said, adding that TLC’s end goal is that no cuts be made.

Snyder noted that the administration wants to be forthcoming and forthright about the process because it knows it is not a simple matter. She also emphasized that when resources are constrained and the objective is to meet goals for a better planet, choices have to be made.

“We are in a time where the university has very bold aspirations, and we have to figure out how to fund those aspirations … [including] financial aid, research and faculty,” she said.

Appel-Kraut said that TLC and other students will continue to put pressure on the administration until it agrees to not make any cuts, and for the time being, TLC plans to continue meeting with representatives from the janitors and expanding its media outreach.

“As time goes on, we’ll continue to ramp up our escalation, so this is not sort of like an end point, this is another step in the direction,” she said.

Senate passes UIJ resolution to increase support for undocumented students UIJ

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groups feel overwhelmed by Senate procedure, she and other senators helped UIJ prepare for its presentation of the resolution, in part by inviting it to attend a Senate meeting.

Aaronson, a sophomore, commended UIJ for strongly demonstrating the barriers Tufts presents to undocumented students and the need for Senate action on the issue.

“They filled the room with people to echo support [for the resolution],”

she said. “They showed Senate that this was important, and they really did their research.”

According to Vinik, UIJ aims to clear up misconceptions that students and administrators may have about undocumented students attending college.

“Once people learn about it, it makes sense to support it,” she said.

Many Tufts students are not aware of the challenges undocumented students face in applying for and attending college, Vinik added.

“The student body doesn’t think about this issue, so it doesn’t really understand the reality of being an undocumented student,” she said. “[Tufts] isn’t held accountable because it’s not perceived as an issue.”

Vinik noted that social justice movements at Tufts and at other universities in the United States often do not recognize the privileged position associated with possessing U.S. citizenship. “[Speaking] as a white student citizen, we need to start realizing that citizenship is a privilege,” Vinik said.

TCU Senate Update Interim Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences James Glaser opened up Sunday’s Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate meeting by announcing tentative ideas to create new on-campus undergraduate student housing as part of the T10 Strategic Plan.

“There will be some sort of undergraduate housing that’s considered,” he said. “It’s not going to happen in your time here. It takes way too much time and money to do that. But we’re listening.”

At the Nov. 23 TCU Senate meeting, Glaser also outlined several construction projects the university will prioritize in the next 10 years, beginning in 2015. In addition to the creation of a new on-campus dormitory — the location of which has yet to be determined — Tisch Library will undergo renovations in order to modernize the building and its technology, according to Glaser. The T10 plan also prioritizes the ongoing renovations at 574 Boston Ave., as well as the construction at Robinson Hall and Anderson Hall, which are set to become part of a new science and engineering complex.

Glaser said the school will focus on “address[ing] unevenness in graduate programs and elevate them across the board,” over the next 10 years. Although he did not mention specific goals, Glaser said the plan also includes goals for better accessibility, including an emphasis on financial aid and making the Medford/Somerville campus

more “disability-friendly.”

“We have a very ambitious year ahead,” he said. “We’re hoping to make some real progress.”

The university will not be hiring any additional faculty in the next 10 years, according to Glaser. While the last T10 plan — initiated in 2005 — set a goal to hire 60 new faculty members, Glaser said Tufts has since surpassed that threshold and re-prioritized itself for the coming decade.

TCU Senators also asked Glaser questions about administrative plans not included in the T10 plan. He explained that there are no plans for modifications to the distribution requirements, although plans are in the works for expanding the Department of Computer Science.

Senate also passed a resolution 21-22 that would create a program through which undergraduates could take a semester or a year off campus for public servicerelated work. Resolution authors, first-year Rati Srinivasan and seniors Michael Maskin, Devyn Curley, Sean Gunn, Joseph Reiff and Joe Phillipson, said they plan to take the proposal, dubbed “Equals 5,” to administrators for consideration.

Unlike the 1+4 Bridge Service Learning Program, which is offered only to incoming first-year students before they begin their four years at Tufts, Equals 5 allows students to do the service work amid their

undergraduate career. Like Northeastern University’s co-op program, which allows students to take a year or semester off to work off campus, students’ participation in Equals 5 would be part of the Tufts curriculum — as opposed to taking a leave of absence in order to work full time as students are currently required, according to the resolution authors.

The resolution states that students who participate in Equals 5 would help teach a workshop about active citizenship when they return. While the resolution did not set specific numbers for the required monetary support for participating students, it included a clause recommending tuition assistance and other forms of aid.

“The main thing is being able to work in an area you might not otherwise be able to because of financial restraints,” Maskin said.

The Senate also passed 11 money requests from student organizations that totaled $25,230.14. Fund requests included $5,623.14 to JumboCast for new technological equipment, $2,452 to Tufts Quidditch to attend the World Cup — for which the team recently qualified — and $4,000 for Entertainment Board to bring in talent for a spring lecture and comedian.

The Senate will host its final meeting of the semester on Dec. 7.

—by Stephanie Haven

Arts & Living

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Theater Review

Vincent Carbone | Media & Me

'Trip to Bountiful' explores complicated family dynamics, the complexity of memory

by Josh Podolsky Daily Staff Writer

Some plays are entertaining; others are exceptional. ArtsEmerson’s production of Horton Foote’s “The Trip

Trip to Bountiful Directed by Michael Wilson Cutler Majestic Theater 219 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02166 to Bountiful”(1954) is most definitely in the latter group — it’s an exceptional play in many regards. Now, just before Thanksgiving, “The Trip to Bountiful” is particularly relevant.

Soon millions of people across the country will travel to visit loved ones, and many of them — especially college students — will be going home.

Home and tradition exert an ineffable force that draws people far and wide. “The Trip to Bountiful” explores the strength and peculiarity of the importance of the home in peoples’ lives, and Foote’s examination of the home centers around the adventure of a single elderly woman, Carrie Watts, played by Tony Award winner Cicely Tyson, on her way to Bountiful, Texas, her childhood hometown.

It is remarkable how unremarkable Carrie’s adventure is as it unfolds in a series of vignettes portraying the day-to-day, and yet the play itself is consistently engaging. It is not a desire for home that drives Carrie, but a need for it. Time is of the essence to her, yet her family, whom she lives with in Houston, refuses to take her to Bountiful or to allow her to make the trip herself — they are too busy, and she is too. Carrie receives few, if any,

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Cicely Tyson won a Tony for her portrayal of Carrie Watts in “The Trip to Bountiful,” now being produced by ArtsEmerson. of the perks that go along with her age and position in the family — she is a mother in title, but not in role. Instead, she functions as a provider while paradoxically acting chronically immature,

helping make ends meet with her pension check and subverting her cohabitants’ authority at every opportunity see BOUNTIFUL, page 4

Parkay Quarts channels digital discontent in newest album 'Content Nausea'

by Anjali Nair

Contributing Writer

It’s nearly impossible to find a band today that rejects the lure of social media as adamantly as the Brooklyn

Content Nausea Parkay Quarts What’s Your Rupture? quartet Parquet Courts. While the vast majority of popular artists (and even those who operate under the radar, for that matter) succumb to the supposedly indisputable claim that digital marketing is “the future,” Parquet Courts has shunned this idea and proven that band members don’t need to rely on digital gimmicks to make it as musicians. One major example of this attitude is the confusing monikers the musicians have adopted; “Parquet Courts” refers to the full quartet, while “Parkay Quarts” signifies a duo comprised of two of the group’s members. Additionally, the band has returned to old-school analogue releases and antiquated promotional techniques like hand-making its own flyers and organically building up a fan base through live shows.

Though it may at first appear counterintuitive, it’s not shocking that the band has drawn so much attention over the past year. The media tends to obsess over anything unusual and anomalous; critics, in particular, seem fascinated by

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Parkay Quarts revives vintage rock while indicting the current state of music and humanity on new album “Content Nausea.” a band that refuses to partake in what many accept as the 21st-century lifestyle. But the praise Parquet Courts has received is well-deserved. Aside from giving the metaphorical middle finger to the digital spin, Parquet Courts is a great band on its own merit, with witty lyrics and raw performances to back up its dissidence.

On Nov. 10, one-half of Parquet Courts, Andrew Savage and Austin Brown, released “Content Nausea” as Parkay Quarts. The album is a culmination of Savage and Brown’s lo-fi punk disillusion. Recorded on a fourtrack tape machine in a mere two see PARKAY, page 4

#Shirtstorm Plenty of people talk about how GamerGate is about preserving “Journalistic Ethics,” but what does that really mean?

To answer that, I’d like to discuss a story that’s a little more mainstream than gaming: the Rosetta mission. For those of you who haven’t been following it in the news, Rosetta was a recent European mission to land a scientific probe on a comet. In a week where a top news story was Kim Kardashian’s butt, this should have been something to celebrate.

Instead, much of the major coverage of the Rosetta mission focused on Matt Taylor, the Rosetta mission’s project scientist. Or rather, it focused on his shirt. You see, during a televised press conference after the successful landing, Matt Taylor made the unfortunate choice of wearing a shirt depicting several cartoon women provocatively dressed in leather outfits.

Many online reporters jumped at the opportunity to attack Taylor for his choice of clothing. They claimed that it created a casually sexist environment that is “driving women away from science.” These articles spawned a twitter outrage against Taylor that was so severe it eventually led him to return to television, this time with tears in his eyes, to apologize for the outfit he chose to wear that day.

I hope I don’t have to explain to you how this is a messed up situation. I hope I don’t have to explain that ignoring someone’s major contributions to science because of the clothes they choose to wear is disgusting. I hope I don’t have to explain to you that “I don’t care if you landed a spacecraft on a comet, your shirt is sexist and ostracizing” (see: The Verge) is a headline that we should all be disgusted to learn actually exists.

Call this whatever you want: slut-shaming, or hating or harassment. The point is that this man’s reputation was destroyed and that he was reduced to tears by harassment, all because a few journalists didn’t think he was wearing appropriate clothing.

Fortunately, many people agree that bullying a man until he tearfully agrees that you are right is wrong. London mayor Boris Johnson likened the harassment to something out of Stalin’s show trials. TIME condemned the articles, and The Guardian said that they bordered on toxic. The consensus is in, and people (mostly) agree: These kinds of attack pieces are not OK. Now some of you are wondering what this has to do with GamerGate. Well, let me put it this way: the Verge article I mentioned above? It was written by Chris Plante of Polygon. Back when GamerGate started, he was one of the people who painted all gamers as white male misogynists. He writes these types of hit pieces a lot.

And he’s not alone. The vast majority of the anti-GamerGate news coverage has been made up of hit pieces similar to this one. In fact, I recall one particular person claiming that GamerGate’s mascot, a cartoon girl named Vivian James, was wearing a shirt that was sexist because it was a reference to a rape joke (it’s a green and purple striped sweater …?). To all of you out there who are disgusted with how the online media attacked Matt Taylor: They’ve been doing this to a lot of people for a long time now.

GamerGate is not just about policing games journalists’ conflicts of interest. It’s about telling reporters that they are going to be held accountable for the things they say.

It’s about creating an environment where the industry condemns smear campaigns against those who disagree with journalists’ world view, and does not consider them the norm.

It’s about creating a journalistic community that serves the truth, not a personal agenda.

Vincent Carbone is a senior majoring in biology. He can be reached at vincent.carbone@tufts.edu.

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Arts & Living

Parkay Quarts defies modern consumerism with expertly crafted, ‘Content Nausea’ PARKAY

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weeks, “Content Nausea” stands in defiance of the music industry standard of overproduction and monthslong marketing campaigns. The record features striking visceral energy and flaunts a consistently despondent attitude toward the zest for “virtual consumption” that dominates modern life.

The title track begins with chugging guitars and a marching beat, over which vocalist Savage chants about his dissatisfaction with the information age. Perhaps the most important song on the album, it eventually gives way to a lengthy spoken-word monologue in which Savage decries the human race’s so-called progress: “This year it became harder to be tender / Harder and harder to remember / Meeting a friend, writing a letter / Being lost, antique ritual / All lost to the ceremony of progress.” Full of powerful lyrics and remarkably eloquent insights, “Content Nausea” sets a high bar for the rest of the album.

Fortunately, this standard is met by each subsequent track. Rather than put the listener to sleep, Savage’s monotone vocals and limited range work perfectly with the theme of “Content Nausea” and even become oddly endearing by the end.

Given the record’s intense lyrics, it is tempting to give the words precedence over the musical aspects of a song.

Still, Parkay Quarts’ signature lo-fi style retains its value. For example, “Pretty Machines,” a highlight of the album and by far the catchiest number, begins with an addictive guitar hook over a simple chord progression to which listeners cannot help but nod along. Later, this melody is surrounded by an ensemble of kazoos in an interlude reminiscent of Frank Zappa’s “Freak Out!” (1966) days.

Vocally, Savage is at his most melodic as he confronts punk rock’s reputation of non-conformism: “Punk songs, I thought that they were different / And I thought that they could end it / No, no it was a deception.” He also discusses his own fallibility, saying he too

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Austin Brown and Andrew Savage of Parquet Courts, band together to produce a lo-fi album inspired by disillusionment and ennui. has been tricked by consumerist society, an admission which offers a nice moment of unity between Savage and those he condemns for their addiction to vapid click-bait.

Toward the end of “Content Nausea,” the band delivers a snarky rendition of Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Are Made For Walkin’” (1966), during which Savage violently screams, “You ready boots? Start walkin’!” After this memorable cover, the last standout on the album is the final track, “Uncast Shadow of a Southern Myth.” As the title suggests, the song summons

Family drama gives a new meaning to home for the holidays BOUNTIFUL continued from page 3

with wit and whimsy. Even if she did not pine for Bountiful, it would still be clear that Ms. Watts is not at home in Houston.

Every episode that is set in Bountiful is an exposé — both of Carrie, who is hardly ever absent from the stage, and of her companions. Best described as having the attitude of a child and the wit of a sage, Carrie is an endless font of character development, all of which links back to Bountiful and her memories of it. When she speaks, Bountiful sounds almost too good to be true — an archetype of rural America.

But as Carrie finds out, Bountiful’s most bounteous resource is its plethora of bygone dreams and memories.

The town is gone before she is able to make her return. The rundown relic of her house that remains is a physical manifestation of her life with her son Ludie (Blair Underwood), an amalgamation of 1950s male stereotypes, and daughter-in-law Jessie Mae (Vanessa Williams) — the very definition of a “monster-in-law” — back in Houston. When she exclaims that the house is in worse repair than she had expected, it seems that this is only one facet of her surprise.

Yet, equally important, if not more so, than the physical home are the memories that come attached. Some credit for the beauty of “Bountiful” must be given to Foote’s writing, but the actor’s performances truly elevate the script. Tyson, who received a Tony in 2013 for her portrayal of Carrie Watts, is utterly convincing as she balances wit, senility, hope, nostalgia and desire. Likewise, Watts’ castmates give realistic performances as Carrie touches the lives of their characters.

Not all is perfect with this production, however enthrallingly close it may seem at times. Sometimes comedic quips inserted into emotional moments distract from the flow of the play. The uproarious laughter from the audience diminishes this tension of the situation when it may have been better to let the tension build to a release. At the same time, it is hard to entirely discredit these comedic moments because they usually come, rather naturally, from Carrie’s multifaceted character. Outside of a few awkward moments, “The Trip to Bountiful” is a fantastic play, and this production has much to recommend it. “The Trip to Bountiful” will be performed at the Cutler Majestic Theatre through Dec. 7.

impressions of the American South, with vivid images that describe the story of a man who shoots trespassers on his property. The darkness of the tale is reflected in the somber chord changes under Savage’s heavy vocals. By the end of “Uncast,” the initial gloom erupts into a hectic melee of screaming and dissonant guitar twangs. Though the song departs from the album’s thematic roots, it’s a poignant conclusion for an album bred out of frustration.

Some may accuse Parkay Quarts of being overly caustic in its criticisms

while failing to offer up any solutions. Nevertheless, it is apparent that the band practices what it preaches; it’s no small feat for a modern band to build itself up without an active social media presence. Moreover, Brown and Savage’s lyrics evoke an emotional response from the listener, perhaps because their disillusionment with technology and capitalism is so warranted and familiar. As Savage says during his frenzied monologue on the album’s title track, “No one says it but it’s known / the more connected, the more alone.”

'She Loves Me' transports audience into world of the parfumerie

by Grace Hoyt Contributing Writer

This weekend, Torn Ticket II gave three performances of “She Loves Me,” directed by senior Allison Benko, with music by Jerry Bock and

She Loves Me Directed by Allison Benko Torn Ticket II Balch Arena Theater lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. The musical, which premiered on Broadway in 1963, is an adaptation of the play, “Parfumerie”(1937) by Miklos Laszlo, which formed the basis of the 1940 film “The Shop Around the Corner.” “She Loves Me” tells the story of two lovers who don’t know they’re lovers; after responding to a “lonely hearts advertisement,” the two correspond by letter with no idea of each other’s true identity.

Most of the first act of the play involves quarreling between the lovers, who are, in fact, coworkers at the same perfume shop.

The story begins with an introduction to the magical setting of the perfumery. The first number, “Good Morning, Good Day,” shows the opening of the shop in the morning and introduces us to some of the main characters.

And what characters they are! Within the world of the perfumery, we meet an eclectic bunch of men and women including store owner, Mr. Maraczek (played by first-year Suvi Rajadurai), a kind man who sings about his days as a young bachelor as he dances around the shop with a broom. Everything changes for him, however, when he finds out his wife is cheating on him with one of the clerks. There is also Ilona Ritter

(played by sophomore Rachel Sheldon, the executive multimedia editor for the Daily), a young woman in love with fellow clerk Steven Kodaly (junior Lincoln Gray), who, in turn, continuously skips out on dates with her. Ladislav Sipos (firstyear Nathan Watts) is an older clerk concerned with supporting his family — his mantra is “never say no.” Last are the two main lovers, Georg Nowack (senior Dan Pickar), a lonely bachelor and long-time clerk, and Amalia Balash (senior Grace Oberhofer), a young woman who arrives looking for a job and is hired by Mr. Maraczek for her outstanding sales skills.

One of the most enjoyable moments in the play occurs at local restaurant Café Imperiale.

The song, titled “Romantic Atmosphere,” features an incredible performance by senior Paul Perrone as “the waiter.” According to our dear waiter, the restaurant, despite its mediocre food, will prioritize a romantic experience for couples over all else, and, as if to prove his point, he proceeds to sing and set the table while couples dine, lit by romantic lighting.

This song also sets the stage for one of the most climactic moments of the play, as the restaurant is also the site of the first “meeting” of the lovers, and it certainly is not idyllic. The situation starts out romantically enough: Amalia and Georg plan to meet, and agree that she will have a copy of “Anna Karenina” (1877) with a rose in it and he will wear a rose. However, within minutes, things go awry.

Though love is not always a simple thing, in this play, the holidays’ approach heightens the magic of “She Loves Me.” In a flourish of singing and selling, we see the store decorated as customers buy presents for loved ones — the same sort of activity that will undoubtedly descend upon Boston in a few weeks. Indeed this magical setting, combined with wonderful music and character development, offered a thrilling space for romance to unfold.

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This holiday, respect marginalized histories

A typical Thanksgiving celebration conjures images of watching football, gathering with families and friends and overeating homemade turkey, pies and mashed potatoes. From a young age, we are taught that Thanksgiving commemorates a celebratory and collaborative feast in which Native Americans taught the underprepared Pilgrims how to hunt and survive in North America. This provides, however, an oversimplified and inaccurate depiction of Thanksgiving. The harsh reality of relations among European settlers and Native Americans is often overlooked for simpler festivities. Thanksgiving is justifiably a day to remind us of the complex history associated with European treatment of the Native American people.

Traditional American history tells us that the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians celebrated the first Thanksgiving in 1621 in Plymouth, Mass., where Native Americans and Pilgrims ate food and played games together. According to Native American

Reverend Randy Woodley, however, Thanksgiving did not begin with the arrival of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock. Before Thanksgiving became an official federal holiday in 1863, the United States had a long history of Thanksgiving-type holidays, as Native Americans had been celebrating days of giving thanks for thousands of years.

Some Native Americans do not specify one day for giving thanks and being grateful, and instead Thanksgiving is a periodic — in some tribes, daily — celebration.

Instead of a celebration of American culture, Thanksgiving offers an opportunity to raise up the traditions and rituals of Native American tribes who have been marginalized and oppressed throughout American history. One tradition includes a roundtable reading of an Iroquois prayer.

The prayer reflects on being thankful for all types of creation, and is an example of an effective method to discuss the history of Thanksgiving in relation to the Native American perspective.

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Whether through discussing the relevance and importance of Native American history to the history of North America, incorporating elements of traditional Native American Thanksgiving celebrations into your festivities or learning about the history of Native Americans in your particular area of the United States, Thanksgiving should be recognized as an opportunity to educate yourself and others on Native American culture and history. We should reflect on what the immigration of the Pilgrims meant for the Native Americans, as well as European settlers. While many people celebrate the holiday, a group of Native Americans congregate every year in Plymouth for the National Day of Mourning to protest the glorification of European colonialism in North America. However you choose to celebrate and give thanks this week, the significance of the holiday’s origin should not be forgotten.

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For-profit colleges shouldn’t be funded

by Elizabeth Hannah The Daily Wildcat

Last month, the Obama administration announced a regulation that will require colleges and universities to show that their graduates are marketable and successful in order to qualify for taxpayer-funded federal student aid programs.

The new rule, which will take effect in July 2015, stipulates that a “typical graduate’s [estimated annual loan payment must not] exceed 20 percent of his or her discretionary income or eight percent of his or her total earnings.” Otherwise, the program will become ineligible for federal funding and won’t be able to accept students who use Pell Grants to fund their tuition.

In theory, the regulation will crack down on programs whose graduates wind up drowning in student loan debt.

The proposal is aimed in particular at regulating for-profit institutions, which have recently become a dominant force in the world of higher education, but are accused of making money on the backs of low-income students.

The University of Phoenix, for example, owned by Apollo Education Group, enrolled 319,700 students in 2013, amassing $1.1 billion in revenue. Like other businesses that run for-profit universities, Apollo Education Group has a vested interest in increasing its revenue because it caters to stock market shareholders.

While for-profit colleges claim to act in the best interest of their students, there clearly exists a conflict of interest between their mission to educate and their mission to profit. Market-driven pressure to increase revenue would seem to incentivize maximizing tuition rates and minimizing educational expenditures. Indeed, multiple sources indicate that graduates of for-profit schools face significantly higher unemployment rates and student debt than graduates of public colleges and not-for-profit universities.

According to the Department of Education, “attending a two-year forprofit institution costs a student four times as much as attending a community college.”

And because more than 80 percent of for-profit students borrow money to pay for school, for-profit students account for 44 percent of federal student loan defaults. Yet, disturbingly, for-profit college students comprise only 11 percent of the higher education population.

In a 2011 study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, three Harvard faculty members corroborate these statistics, finding that “for-profit students end up with higher unemployment and ‘idleness’ rates and lower earnings six years after entering programs than do comparable students from other schools, and that they have far greater student debt burdens and default rates on their student loans.”

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Furthermore, an investigation conducted by the Government Accountability Office in 2010 suggests that for-profit colleges use deceptive, manipulative recruiting practices to attract students. The GAO sent undercover applicants to 15 for-profit colleges, discovering that admissions representatives at all 15 schools provided unclear, incomplete or exaggerated information about their program’s duration and costs. At four of the colleges, applicants were blatantly encouraged to falsify financial documents in order to become eligible for financial aid. To be clear, this constitutes felony fraud in many states.

The university system in the U.S. is rife with financial problems, but the solution to soaring tuition rates and a poor job market is not for-profit education. Leaving students at the mercy of the private sector exposes them to huge expenses that yield little benefit.

President Barack Obama’s decision to tie federal funding to post-graduation success may not be the ideal fix for the for-profit college problem. The president is attempting surgery with a machete, and if it turns out that his new policy does more damage to not-for-profit schools than the targeted forprofit ones, then it will need to be altered.

But the administration’s proposed regulation represents a necessary first step in ensuring that postsecondary institutions base their decisions around a commitment to education — not the stock market.

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That tingle when ya mingle

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ear party-goers, Mingling, social anxiety, speaking big-kid words, orienting your abnormal and lanky limbs, oh my!

Parties are a hotspot where everyone is trying to bask in the limelight. Social climbing via get-togethers and other gatherings is certainly a specialized art. The following advice could be incredibly inaccurate, considering that my social skills can be characterized by mumbling and internal crying, but most of it is based off of the very valid film “Party Monster” (2003). And with the upcoming holiday season, the infamous “Ugly Christmas Sweater Party” will be our designated example.

First off is attire. It is true that the most important part of successful party socialization starts before you even arrive at the venue. The peacock approach is the best bet: flaunt your feathers, show all the plebes what you got. Maybe even wear peacock patterned pants, shoes or a studded fanny pack. Nothing is too much. But, returning to our Christmas party example, all previous expectations must be completely surpassed. One may believe that a crusty, slightly ironic Goodwill “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” turtleneck sweater with a lightup nose would take the cake. But nope, not enough. The best approach would be to wear a full-body tinsel suit crafted out of scraps of velvet and haphazardly placed brown corduroy patches. While hanging off of a Christmas tree. That’s right. Everyone will be astonished by your craft abilities. “The ornaments in that Christmas tree are so unique and slightly upsetting!” they will whisper, horrified yet inexplicably fulfilled. But no sir, it’s you and three of your closest friends, dangling from the branches, twisting the concepts of reality like they’re clockwork.

The next tenet of correctly climbing the social ladder at a party is your arrival. As

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Off the Hill | University of South Florida recommended by “Party Monster,” the best tactic is to separate yourself from your posse upon the moment of arrival at the venue.

Each person flees to a separate part of the room to cover his or her bases. Then, the real action happens. You ask every person in an appropriate radius if they have seen your friend around. Of course, you actually know where they are, but the point is to spread your influence and establish a slightly irritating yet amiable presence. This tactic allows for introductions that seem unintentional, maybe even completely random. The ultimate goal is that you show that you can comfortably participate in the social environment without requiring the attention of anyone else there. And when you actually “find” each other in the end, make sure to make it a huge occurrence while yelling something completely false and vaguely shocking to ensue panic. “Kourtney and Khole are Taking Anchorage next season?” or “Fantasia and Ruben Studdard are embarking on a worldwide tour in the fall?” should do the trick.

Afterward, dance the night away. You have the crowd’s attention, so show them the right way to get crunk and krump to “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” (2000).

But after all of that work, one cannot simply let the social attention he or she has procured go to waste. The last and probably most significant step is the follow-up.

The next party will have to top the previous.

Bigger Christmas-themed costumes will be expected. Oh, it’s a Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus dress-up theme? Go ahead and defy every stereotype in your costumes. That’s right: curvy but not obese, same-sex couplings, dressing “scandalously” to promote your distaste for slut shaming and a menorah for cultural inclusion. Create an even stronger aura during your next arrival. You’ve made it to the top of the ladder, and there’s no slipping down. Take a bow, but more importantly, make them bow down to you.

Glitter and gauchos, Henry

Unhealthy ideals lead to body issues

by Chelsea Mulligan

Recently, Keira Knightley posed topless in a magazine spread as a cheeky protest against excessive photo retouching. Her only request to the periodical, Interview Magazine, was that her breast size remain unedited.

The fact that a Hollywood beauty such as Knightley could still be subject to retouching lays quite a bit of pressure on the average American woman.

After all, if stars still are not perfect enough, it seems like most women do not have a chance.

It is unsurprising, then, that the incidents of college women with eating disorders have increased from 10 to 20 percent, according to the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA).

Tragically, according to the American Psychological Association, one in five people afflicted with anorexia will not survive.

That is the highest death rate of any mental illness.

Obviously, the quest to be excessively thin is unhealthy and damaging. In addition to the high fatality rate, the NEDA also lists eating disorders as causing fatigue, heart complications, bone damage and gastrointestinal distress.

All of these ill effects should inspire women — and men — who are not yet suffering from an eating disorder to take ownership of their bodies and promote health over appearance despite media messages, family influence and even one’s own standards.

The Oracle

However, health can also be a tricky goal because it is not immediately visible, despite what fitness magazines’ lead readers to think. Along with this, perhaps as a reaction to the now long-held unhealthy ideal, there is a new trend placing an emphasis on strong over skinny.

Social media users are focusing more and more on posting gym and workout photos or videos. Pinterest, which, according to the company, is 83 percent female users, now has hundreds of boards dedicated to fitness.

Unfortunately, there is as much danger in this as in eating disorders.

Compulsive exercise can actually be a symptom of eating disorders like bulimia, which involve some form of purging to eliminate calories. As such, aspects of the fit ideal could lead to equally unrealistic expectations of women as the thin ideal, since not many women have the time or the need to work their bodies into gymnast- or athlete-level fitness.

Then the emphasis again turns out not to be on health, but on how good a woman’s muscles can look when she posts them on her Instagram, or on how flat her stomach is.

Idolizing fitness is the same problem as idolizing thinness, albeit with a different spin.

Regardless, any disease that results in such a high rate of fatality should be taken seriously, and the women and men who suffer from body issues need society’s help in order to recover.

It is time that society as a whole resists the temptation to chase unattainable body image goals. That surely has to be a better reality than the fatigue, depression and other complications encouraged by unhealthy ideals for the body.

Henry Jani is a first-year student who has not yet declared a major. He can be reached at henry.jani@tufts.edu.

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the recipient of New England’s sixth bid, which put the Jumbos in position to justify their berth.

“We beat the fifth team from every other region, so I think it was really good for [Tufts] and really good for New England to show how strong our region is and justify [our bid] on the national stage,” Guarnaccia said.

Guarnaccia described the course as flat, which would normally mean much faster times. However, it snowed five inches three days prior to the race and then rained the two previous days, so the course was muddy. Although the mud slowed the race down, Guarnaccia enjoyed the sloppy course. He said both O’Connor and Nichols fell at one point

and lots of other competitors were falling on the slippery turns.

The team flew in on Thursday, and three passenger vans drove roughly 32 fans to the race. Guarnaccia and the rest of the team is proud of the fact that Tufts is one of the only East Coast teams that consistently brings a contingent of fans to meets so far away.

“It’s kind of fun because I spent my first two years road tripping out to watch the guys, and then I ran my last two years, so I’ve seen both sides of it and they are both awesome. I think it’s one of the coolest parts about being on our team, because it’s different from other schools,” Guarnaccia said.

Guarnaccia pointed to the camaraderie between New England teams at nationals as something he enjoyed.

“It’s really cool because you’re competing and at each others’ throats all season because we only compete in New England, and then we immediately get out there and we are all friends trying to beat other teams,” Guarnaccia said. “I really like that.”

Although this was the last cross country race for the Tufts seniors, most of the team also runs track and field in the winter and spring, so the team is far from disbanded.

“Pretty much all of us will go right into distance for track,” Guarnaccia said. “The team sticks together a lot. What happens is we just expand, because we go from our 20-25 cross country guys to being on a 65-person track squad with sprints and jumps and field events and all that stuff, so it kind of broadens.”

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slowly, and it was important to stay on the outside to avoid slipping.”

“The warm weather definitely made us feel more relaxed about racing, but the mud was a bit of a challenge,” Fahey said.

This weekend, Tufts perhaps had one of its best performances of the season, as the team improved greatly over its fifth-place effort at NESCACs and its sixth-place finish at the Div. III New England Regional.

The Jumbos truly looked like the team that they exemplified in the early parts of the season, when they were ranked as high as U.S. No. 10.

“I think this weekend we went in much more relaxed and confident in our ability to perform well as a team,” de Mars said.

“Rather than putting pressure on ourselves, we went in wanting to prove what we knew we were capable of. It was our chance to

show the nation that we belonged to be among the best teams.”

The Tufts fans, colloquially known as the ‘crazies’, also made the venture out to Ohio in rental vans, leaving campus at 3:00 p.m. on Friday, driving straight through the night, and arriving at the course five minutes before the men’s race despite getting caught in an ice storm.

Their energy helped catapult the team to a top-20 finish.

“The fans were lined up everywhere along the course, and the crazies were there for it all,” Fahey said. “Their energy, as well as the energy from the other runners in the race, truly swept us along to a solid finish.”

With only three seniors on the roster (Catherine Madden, Meghan Gillis and cocaptain Caroline Kimball-Katz), Tufts will be returning the majority of its roster next year, including its entire top seven. With

improvement from the entire roster, the Jumbos could be looking at at least a top-10 finish at nationals next year.

“All of the girls who raced this weekend will be returning, and we are hoping to be even stronger next year,” de Mars said.

“We have a lot of young talent on the team, and I think we are excited to work hard in the off-season and be ready to compete together next fall. If we put in the miles and stay healthy, I have no doubt we will come back ready to fight for top 15.”

“It is definitely a confidence booster that all of our top seven are returning,” Fahey said. “But we still need to keep in mind that teams like MIT also aren’t losing many seniors, so we still need to be at the top of our game and need to continue to improve.”

After a few well-deserved weeks off, the team will begin preparations for the indoor track season, which starts next semester.

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“It’s huge to get our bench going early in the season,” Kanner said. “It’s a great opportunity to give some of the newcomers more experience and helps build confidence, both of which are incredibly useful down the road. It’s very hard to guard a team that is able to empty its bench and still perform.”

But the game on Saturday was a much tougher test, as Brandeis, like Tufts, had yet to lose this season. As such, Tufts would not coast to victory against Brandeis, but after a neck-andneck first half that witnessed several changes in the lead, Tufts took over in the second period to win comfortably.

Foley and sophomore forward Michela North combined for 38 points on 16-32 shooting, most of those coming in the midst of a 47-28 second half, as they galvanized their teammates down the stretch after having failed to distance themselves for much of the game.

Both Foley and North were active on the glass as well, with Foley grabbing seven boards and North 11 for her first double-double of the season.

“Ideally we don’t want to wait until the second half to get things together,” Kanner said. “Against Brandeis we were able to pull our defense together, and Hannah and our shooters were able to go off, but we don’t want to have to wait for the second half for that to happen. We should always be

playing like we have a chip on our shoulder, which started to happen in the second half.”

After a pair of free throws by senior guard Hannah Cain brought the Judges within five points three minutes into the second half, the Jumbos went on a 7-0 run, and the Judges did not come within 10 points for the rest of the game. At the 5:26 mark, Morehead dished to Foley behind the arc, who

drained a three-pointer to extend Tufts’ lead to 59-43 and effectively ice the game. Foley was 4-6 from downtown in the second half, making two of those shots at critical junctures.

With these two victories, Tufts moves to the 4-0 on the season. The team will look to remain unbeaten when it travels to Eastern Connecticut State University tonight to take on the Warriors.

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An Olympian Proposal

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conomists be damned: Wu-Tang was right.

Cash rules everything — and not only around me. It is deleterious like no other substance on earth. What distinguishes money from cigarettes, for example, is that it masquerades, convincingly, as a net positive, and is infinite in scope. Because it is the cornerstone of the world economic system, it is indispensable; it is transacted surreptitiously, tinged with ulterior motive, which keeps it out of the hands of the very people it purports to benefit. No one is safe.

The Olympics are a farce.

Long ago, they were a bastion of amateurism, a quadrennial homage to Underpaid Anonymous, the cosmopolitan coterie of athletes who, unlike their pampered mainstream counterparts, ply their esoteric trades ceaselessly in the intervening years toward a dubious roster spot on an underfunded team. When money entered the fray, that all changed.

Sponsors jockeyed for air time, ponying up the funds for sleek new uniforms and fancy equipment. But those toys could never coexist with integrity. Soon enough, actual sports like Greco-Roman wrestling gave way to golf, which is a few rungs below chess in the pantheon of really hard games. Opening ceremonies burst forth from solemnity into gaudy spectacles, their towering, kaleidoscopic displays more a testament to the insidiousness of materialism than to the magnitude of the thing. What a sad state of affairs it is that the ballet of dressage, in all its equine glory, smarts under the yoke of under-appreciation, next to tennis. (Thanks, big money.)

We consumers have laid the groundwork for this untenable status quo, but there is time yet to salvage the Olympic spirit. By tweaking the schedule, we can ensure its rehabilitation: If the Olympics were held annually, and in the dead of winter in the arctic hinterland instead of alternately in the summer and winter, they would undoubtedly revert to their wholesome, erstwhile self. Let me explain.

Rarity is good for all nouns. The less common an object, the more it is worth — the Olympics are no exception. Since they occur every four years — every two, in actuality — they are worth more than they would be if they were held annually; depreciation is a deterrent to would-be investors, and is thus bound to curtail the influx of money. This, in turn, would purge the Olympics of the blight of commodification.

Furthermore, holding the Olympics in frigid conditions would weed out the weaklings. Call it survival of the fittest, or whatever. Can’t find an indoor gym for basketball?

Build one or go home. The pool is frozen through? Looks like swimming has just been crossed off the docket. Conversely, it would promote certain events, like the biathlon, which is universally adored, and locations, like Lillehammer, Norway, which hosted the most memorable Olympics ever in the winter of 1994. Really, it did.

The end result, of course, would be to recondition the Olympics for a snowier version of eighth-century Greece, where they belong. The barebones model is the only way to achieve the Olympic ideal, loosening the vise-grip of money while adhering to its underlying principles: hipsterism, penury, obscurity, stoicism and freezing cold. Like the NCAA says, amateurism must be devoid of any material boon; its track record of perspicacity leaves no doubt that this is true. A wintry downsizing is the perfect antidote.

The legendary Rabbi Hillel once challenged his disciples, saying, “If not now, when?” His words resonate now perhaps more than ever.

The Olympics are ours to reclaim. Let us not relinquish this opportunity.

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Senior center Hayley Kanner pulls down a rebound during the Jumbos’ 74-51 victory against Brandeis Nov. 22.

Sam Gold is a senior majoring in religion. He can be reached at samuel_l.gold@tufts.edu.

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Men’s Cross Country

Tufts finishes 22nd at Nationals

by Phillip Goldberg

Contributing Writer

Tufts men’s cross country team ended its season with a 22nd-place finish at the Div. III NCAA Championship meet on Saturday. Although the performance was not quite as good as last year’s 17th-place finish, the Jumbos were not far from making the jump to a better final position; they scored a composite 536, which put them only 80 points back from 17th and 130 points back from 13th.

North Central College won the race with a composite score of 130, despite not having a runner place in the top five. Defending champions St. Olaf College came in second with a score of 143.

The consistent sophomore duo of Tim Nichols and Luke O’Connor led the Jumbos, finishing 69th and 80th respectively out of a field of 276. Nichols’ time of 25:05.02 was only five seconds faster than O’Connor’s, which testifies to the competitiveness of the race, as 10 other runners crossed the finish line within just five seconds. Both improved their times and placement drastically from last season’s championship race, in which Nichols placed 100th (25:53) and O’Connor finished 157th (26:17).

Their finishes relative to the rest of the field are better markers for improvement than their times because the meet was not held on the same course as last year.

“Tim [Nichols] and Luke [O’Connor], who have consistently been really good in the postseason, ran really solid,” senior co-captain Nick Guarnaccia said. “I think that both of them could have run even better, I don’t think anyone ran out of their minds.

They ran where we expected them to run. I think that I made the biggest jump forward from regionals to nationals, but I didn’t run that well at regionals, so I was definitely hoping to make that jump.”

Guarnaccia finished 97th (25:20.6), almost a minute faster than his run at Nationals last year. Every place he improved was valuable for the Jumbos, as Tufts finished only a single point ahead of The University of Wisconsin Stout.

“I wanted to be top 100, so that was really nice to accomplish, barely by three places,” Guarnaccia said. “Last year after finishing 160th I definitely wanted to make a significant improvement, so I felt like I did that and I was pretty pleased. [Tufts finished] 22nd, and I think we were hoping to do a little better in the rankings, but I think everyone really ran well and came together for a really good last race.”

Senior Colin McCrory finished fourth for Tufts and 208th overall (25:59.8) in his first run at nationals, despite a painful knee injury which had prevented him from

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Senior co-captains Nicholas Gaurnaccia (left) and Marshall Pagano push off together at the start of the NCAA Championship meet on Nov. 22. running the three days prior to the race. First-year Ty Enos was Tufts’ final scorer, placing 246th (26:22.5) in his first national competition. Senior co-captain Marshall Pagano and senior Joe St. Pierre finished 259th (26:44.3) and 262nd (26.47.8) respectively.

“Ty [Enos] is a freshman, and this was his first college season and that’s just ... a lot,” Guarnaccia said. “He’s been incredible all season. I think he performed, again, like how we thought he would. It’s just difficult to week-in week-out perform when you’re a freshman.

Colin [McCrory] didn’t do as best as he could, but his knee was really banged up. He didn’t

even run the three days before the race just because [his knee] was hurting so bad. He was really running through the pain, so that was a really gutsy race.

I think Marshall [Pagano] has been a little banged up and just tired, and Joe [St. Pierre] didn’t run regionals and was swapped in for nationals and sometimes that’s hard to just click in. You think your season is over and then you have to run again, so I think there were a lot of difficulties, and everyone ran well, but no one ran really really well.”

The Jumbos had hoped to improve on last year’s 17th place finish, but fell short. The team, however, graduated eight

Women’s Cross Country

Fahey’s All-American finish leads Jumbos to 16th place at Nationals

by Chris Warren Daily Editorial Board

Sophomore Kelly Fahey went into the NCAA Div. III Cross Country National Championship meet in Mason, Ohio determined to have a solid finish to her 2014 season. Her finish at nationals, however, exceeded expectations.

Fahey shocked New England Div. III cross country runners and fans by placing 31st at the meet in a time of 22:23.6, earning herself All-American honors on the slow and muddy course at the Golf Center at King’s Island. Fahey was the fifth New England runner and the second NESCAC runner to cross the line. She also defeated both the NESCAC individual champion, Alison Maxwell of Middlebury, and the runner up, Summer Spillane, also of Middlebury.

For comparison’s sake, Fahey placed 32nd overall at the New England regional meet and 41st overall at the NESCAC Championships.

Fahey led Tufts to 16th place overall, 10 spots ahead of its national rank before the meet (U.S. No. 26). The Jumbos’ performance was tied for the best improvement upon the previous national ranking in the entire race. Behind Fahey, junior co-captain Audrey Gould battled tough in the mud and was able to take 73rd overall for the Jumbos in 23:03.4. Her classmate, junior Olivia Beltrani, also ran tough and closed hard to run 23:27.9 for 129th place. Sophomore Lindsay Atkeson, who was one of three runners to return from last year’s top seven, but missed most of the 2014 season due to injury, returned to form, running 23:39.7 for 161st overall. Sophomore Alice Wasserman rounded out the scoring for the Jumbos with her 180th place finish in 23:48.1. Also competing for the Jumbos were junior Michele de Mars, who ran 23:53.0 for 193rd place,

seniors in the spring, so this goal was ambitious from the start.

The improvement of top runners Nichols and O’Connor certainly helped bring the Jumbos close, as did the addition of Enos late in the season. The level of competition at nationals is such that anything less than a perfect run costs much more than it would in any other meet, putting the relatively inexperienced runner at a disadvantage.

New England was the only region that received six bids to the National Championship meet, with no other region earning more than five. Tufts was see MEN’S XC, page 7

Basketball

Tufts extends winning streak to four

by Sam Gold

Fresh off winning the Ramada Roundball Invitational two weekends ago, the fourth-ranked women’s Daily Editorial Board

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL (4-0 Overall, 0-0 NESCAC) at Cousens Gymnasium, Saturday Brandeis Tufts

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high 40s, but recent rain and snow, as well as damage done to the course by the men’s race, had turned the course into a mud pit.

“The course was extremely flat and almost entirely grass, which was a huge change from the past few weeks,” de Mars said. “However, since the course had been covered in snow on Monday, the ground was wet and very slippery, which made footing difficult. The turns had to be taken very

basketball team swept its two-game homestand this past week with a couple of resounding non-conference victories — first against Hartwick College, then against Brandeis.

At 2-0 Tufts was hitting its stride, and one was reminded of last season, when the Jumbos rattled off 21 straight victories until it encountered a Babson team to which it would ultimately fall 58-52. Led by the nucleus of senior tri-captains Kelsey Morehead, Hayley Kanner and Hannah Foley, Tufts marched onward at Cousens Gym, deploying its scorched-earth style of play to great effect.

Tufts notched its most lopsided win thus far this season against Hartwick in a 70-32 victory, allowing fewer points in a game than it had given up all of last season, when it surrendered 33 twice. The loss sent Hartwick to an 0-3 record.

Through the team’s first four games, the Jumbos’ bench has been solid, playing big minutes in blowouts and closing out games without difficulty.

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Sophomore Alice Wasserman races in the NCAA National Championship meet on Nov. 22. and first-year Sara Stokesbury, who ran 24:55.1 for 264th overall.

“My strategy was to go out hard and keep in the back of my mind that the course was flat and I didn’t need to worry about hills,” Fahey said. “I got off the line well, and in the race I used other girls from the New England region as guides to move up on the field. I also thought I did a pretty good job taking wide turns to avoid the mud.”

Course conditions were not completely ideal for racing. Temperatures were in the

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